Ohio · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND
UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND (Ohio) receives grants from 126 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,753,721 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,913,436). 89 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 126
- Grants received
- $22M
- Net assets
- $23M
What United Way of Greater Cleveland does
Mission
United Way of Greater Cleveland ("uwgc or the organization") is a not-for-profit corporation located in cleveland, ohio. Uwgc serves as an essential community connector, generating and coordinating resources across individual donors, corporations, service providers and government and civic leaders to improve lives and create community impact at scale.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Information & referral - united way serves as the gateway to social services in the community through their 2-1-1 service. United way 2-1-1 connects individuals and families to social services 24 hours a day, every day of the year providing information and service navigation to help people find and understand their options to access community resources. 226,000 clients were connected with experts who help to secure food, housing and utility assistance, reduce prescription costs, support veterans, and more.
$3,354,496 spent$998,318 earned by the program36% of program spendingEconomic mobility programs aim to close wage gaps and break the cycle of generational poverty by increasing access to education for children and paving career pathways for adults. 3,000 workers have been connected with in-demand careers.
$2,650,175 spent$624,168 earned by the program29% of program spendingAgency capacity - united way connects donors and causes and is dedicated to putting donor dollars to work making the greatest impact for people in need. United way provides agency partner resources for capacity building. United way also funds catholic charities, united black fund, and the jewish community federation.
$2,479,916 spentof which $2,479,916 as grants27% of program spendingHousing stability services help to decrease the likelihood of systematic and generational poverty by creating a foundation to decrease homelessness and ensure housing is safe, secure and stable. Approximately 30,000 leadership in energy and environmental design (leed) safe certificates have been issued as part of the coalition.
$432,281 spent$950,597 earned by the program5% of program spendingHealth pathway services, outreach activities and program target the medical and social determinants of health, addressing immediate needs as well as the long term well being of residents. Approximately 700 chronically ill adults received medically tailored home delivered meals and assistance to address health related social needs. Approximately 40 food pantries received funding, supplies and maintenance to sustain the pantries effectively.
$330,903 spent$161,088 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,247,771.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $37M to $48M (+29%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (80% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Sharon Sobol Jordan
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 33 funders to 54 funders, grant income rose $1.0M → $2.8M.
26 of 126 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $53M from 29 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Cleveland Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 126 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
46% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 27% · 2019 14% · 2020 14% · 2021 14% · 2022 13% · 2023 17% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
54% of UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
62% of UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND's funding base is broadening — from 33 funders to 54 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 490 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.8M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$4.8M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- United Way Properties LLC · disregarded
- United Way of Geauga County · exempt
- Cleveland Community Fund · exempt
- Uw Greater Cleveland Philanthropic Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND (Ohio) receives grants from 126 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,753,721 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,913,436). 89 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND have?
- IRS filings report 126 organizations giving $21,753,721 in grants to UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND, 89 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,913,436 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 126 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing